The Wife in Chaucer's 'Reeve's Tale': Siren of Sweet Vengeance

Author / Editor
Balliet, Gay L.

Title
The Wife in Chaucer's 'Reeve's Tale': Siren of Sweet Vengeance

Published
English Language Notes 28:1 (1990): 1-6.

Description
The wife's attack upon her husband Symkyn at the end of RvT is not an accident as commonly believed. Rather, the action is a deliberate attempt to conceal her adultery.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale.